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Fingerprinting of Some Omani Date Palm Cultivars using SSR Markers
The numbers of known date palm cultivars that are distributed all over the world are approximately 5,000, out of which about 250 are found only in Oman. It is a dioecious, perennial, monocot plant, and its heterozygous ...
Effect of Mycorrhizae Inoculation on the Growth of Young Date Palm Plants Under Nursery Conditions
Two years’ experiments were carried out at Al Hamrania Research Station (UAE) during (2015-2016) to explore the role of Mycorrhizal inoculation on the growth of date palm plants from micro-propagation growth under nursery ...
Date Palm Production and Water Productivity Under Subsurface Drip Irrigation System
The majority of date palm cultivation in Oman is irrigated using flood irrigation method and just limited area irrigated by Bubbler Irrigation (BI) system. Subsurface Drip Irrigation (SDI) has been proved as a water saving ...
Efficiency of some insecticides against Lesser Date Moth, Batrachedra amydraula
Lesser Date Moth (LDM), Batrachedra amydraula Meyrick, is known in the Sultanate of Oman and elsewhere as Hummeira. It is one of the important pests that attacks date fruits and causes several damages to dates, thus reducing ...
Project Development of Sustainable Date Palm Production Systems in the GCC Countries of the Arabian Peninsula: Objectives, Activities and Major Achievements
The project Development of Sustainable Date Palm Production systems in the GCC Countries of the Arabian Peninsula, is executed in the six GCC countries (Oman, UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait) and financed by the GCC.
The ...
Liquid Pollination Technology as New Technology to Ameliorate Date Palm Pollination and Facilitate Date Palm Field Operations
Pollination of date palm is normally carried out by hand in almost all date palm groves in Oman. Farmers mostly use various hand pollination techniques. Dry pollination is used utilizing hand and motorized dusters with no ...
Economic and Environmental Evaluation of Different Irrigation Systems for Date Palm Farming System in the GCC Countries: Case of Oman
In the frame of the ICARDA project “Development of sustainable date palm production systems in the GCC
countries of the Arabian Peninsula”, researchers succeeded to introduce one promising technology (subsurface drip ...
BigData and ICT for pest surveillance and risk mapping
The date palm is prone to several pests and diseases under changing climate coupled with inadequate and/or lack of proper management,cultural practices and early detection. Red Palm Weevil (RPW) is the most devastating ...
Evaluation of Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Production Under Organic Manure Application with arbascular mycorrhizal fungi Adds on Sandy Soils in State of Kuwait
An experiment was conducted at Amghara Station of the State of Kuwait on date palm Barhee cv with ten treatment combinations involving different sources and levels of organic manure application in conjunction with arbascular ...
Drying Dates Using Solar Energy Under Polycaronate House -New Promising Technology to Dry Dates in Oman
In Oman, date palm is the primary agricultural crop, and it constitutes 80% of all fruit crops produced and 50 % of the total agricultural area in the country (FAO, 2013). Oman is the eighth largest producer of dates in ...